Oleg Vladimirovich Kashin

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Oleg Kashin (2014)

Oleg Vladimirovich Kashin ( Russian Олег Владимирович Кашин , English transcription Oleg Kashin ; born June 17, 1980 in Kaliningrad ) is a Russian investigative journalist . He is one of the best-known journalists for the Kommersant and repeatedly takes a critical look at democratic deficiencies in Russia . On November 6, 2010, Kashin was attacked and seriously injured by strangers outside his apartment in Moscow .

Life

Oleg Kashin was born in Kaliningrad, his father was an engineer and his mother a doctor. In 1990, Kashin organized a school strike in high school, but it failed.

He finished his studies at the State Baltic Fishing Fleet Academy in 2001 with a diploma in naval navigation. He then set sail twice with the Russian training ship Kruzenshtern and successfully participated in international regattas as a navigator.

In May 2013, Kashin temporarily emigrated to Switzerland , where he lived in Geneva . In June 2015 he returned to Russia.

Journalistic work

From August 2001 to May 2003 Oleg Kashin wrote for Komsomolskaya Pravda in Kaliningrad , where he specialized in exclusive interviews. Kashin interviewed many prominent personalities from director James Cameron to the philosopher Alexander Zinoviev and the political scientist Gleb Pawlowski to the writers Boris Akunin and Vladimir Sorokin .

In June 2003, Kashin moved to Moscow , where he worked as a writer for the Kommersant newspaper , which in Russia has a reputation for being a serious and critical source of information. At the Kommersant , Kashin a. a. to the expert for the controversial youth organizations of the ruling party. As one of the most famous journalists of the Kommersant , Oleg Kashin dealt critically with democratic deficiencies in Russia.

In September 2005, Kashin temporarily left the Kommersant and wrote for various publications, including a. for the daily Izvestia and for the tabloid Twoi den ("Your Day"). With Marija Yegorovna Gaidar , daughter of the former Russian Prime Minister Yegor Gaidar , he produced the program Tschornoje i beloje ("Black and White") on the TV channel O2TV.

From April 2007 to 2009 Kashin was a regular author and deputy editor-in-chief of the Russian magazine Russkaya Schisn ("Russian Life").

In 2009 Oleg Kashin returned to the Kommersant . Kashin last wrote about the controversial construction project for a motorway for which a forest near Moscow is to be cleared. In this dispute, the journalist Mikhail Beketov, who had campaigned for the preservation of the forest, was seriously injured by strangers at the end of 2008.

Oleg Kashin also exposes himself in public. He is one of the most productive Russian Twitter users. On the day before the attack on him on November 5, 2010, Kashin wrote 49 tweets (short messages) on Twitter. His posts on Twitter and in his LiveJournal weblog are also described as provocative by fellow journalists.

In October 2010, the press service of President Oleg Kashin refused accreditation for an event with Medvedev on the grounds that Kashin had been arrested during the unauthorized “March of the Dissenters” in spring 2007 and then blacklisted by the Federal Security Service (FSB). The editorial staff of the Kommersant described this refusal as unlawful.

On October 13, 2011, Oleg Kashin, together with the Tunisian journalist Fahem Boukaddous and the German television reporter Stefan Buchen, was awarded the Prize for the Freedom and Future of the Media from the Media Foundation of the Sparkasse Leipzig .

Oleg Kashin also writes for the Republic portal . In February 2018, Kashin wrote about the closure of the investigative portal Russiangate , according to its report on an undeclared property by Alexander Bortnikow , director of the FSB , that by the standards of the Russian press of the 1990s, such a process was "not in the least open to censorship “Differ.

Raid on November 6, 2010

The then Russian President Dmitri Medvedev meets the injured Oleg Kashin (January 18, 2011, Jericho )

Oleg Kashin was brutally beaten by two strangers outside his apartment in Moscow on November 6, 2010. The attackers, camouflaged with bouquets of flowers, lay in wait for Kashin at night and broke his jaw, both legs and hands, among other things. According to initial examinations, Kashin also suffered severe internal injuries. A video recording from the surveillance camera in front of Kaschin's house shows the brutality with which and how deliberately the perpetrators broke the journalist's legs and hands with massive bars.

Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika initiated an investigation into attempted murder. Civil rights activists and the journalists' association as well as the human rights organization Amnesty International were appalled and called for a quick clarification. The then President Dmitry Medvedev immediately stated via Twitter that the public prosecutor's office and the Interior Ministry should investigate the attack on the journalist: "The criminals must be punished."

family

Oleg Kashin has been married to the Kommersant journalist Yevgenia Milova since December 2006 . Their son was born on February 11, 2015.

Publications

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ u. a. Oleg Kashin: Он не смог жить без «Крузенштерна» . Komsomolskaya Pravda. July 24, 2009. Retrieved November 6, 2010.
  2. ↑ Ru-Kashin: Каноническая автобиография (кратко) . Ru-Kashin. 2010. Retrieved November 6, 2010.
  3. ↑ Russkaya Schisn: Oleg Kashin . Russkaya Schisn. 2010. Retrieved November 6, 2010.
  4. ↑ Nabi Abdullaev: Kommersant reporter Is Badly Beaten . The Moscow Times. November 8, 2010. Retrieved November 8, 2010.
  5. ↑ Ivan Tjaschlow: Как корреспондентов "Ъ" не пускали к президенту . Kommersant. October 13, 2010. Retrieved November 6, 2010.
  6. ↑ Leipzig Media Prize awarded to Fahem Boukaddous, Stefan Buchen and Oleg Kashin - press release on the press conference October 13, 2011
  7. ↑ Do not touch Putin, the Patriarch and Bortnikov. Why is the "double security line" moving in the media? , Republic, January 26, 2018
  8. ↑ Life News: Видео жестокого избиения Олега Кашина . YouTube. November 8, 2010. Retrieved November 8, 2010.
  9. ^ APA / dpa: Journalist critical of the regime after being attacked in a coma . APA / dpa. November 6, 2010. Retrieved November 6, 2010.
  10. ↑ Dmitry Medvedev: Преступники должны быть найдены и наказаны . @KremlinRussia / Twitter. November 6, 2010. Retrieved November 6, 2010.
personal data
SURNAME Kashin, Oleg Vladimirovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Кашин, Олег Владимирович (Russian spelling); Kashin, Oleg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian investigative journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 17th June 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Kaliningrad , Soviet Union